"My Documents" folder is gone!

[Dweller]

Hi,
I was working under "guest" type account in Win XP and
then decided to change the type to administrator (of the
local machine). Now all my documents from "My Documents"
folder are gone! IE favorites, too.
Is there a way to restore that???
Thanks!

 

[Fritz]

Is your system restore on? If so, just roll back to when you think the
folder was there.

 

[Dweller]

I guess it is all over, gone :-(

The following are not restored by System Restore:

Specific directories/files listed in the Monitored File
Extensions list in the System Restore section of the
Platform SDK e.g. 'My Documents' folder.
Any file types not monitored by System Restore like
personal data files e.g. .doc, .jpg, .txt etc.
User-created data stored in the user profile
Contents of redirected folders

 

[JW]

I'm new here, but I don't think System Restore is designed to restore user
Documents and Settings. The best tool to restore your Documents and
Settings is your Backup program (e.g. MS Backup). But of course, if you had
scheduled automatic routine daily backups (as easy as running it once, and
choosing the Schedule Backup option), you wouldn't be in trouble.

 

[Fritz]

You're right. Sorry about that.

 

[Fritz]

You are correct.

I'm new here, but I don't think System Restore is designed to restore user
Documents and Settings. The best tool to restore your Documents and
Settings is your Backup program (e.g. MS Backup). But of course, if you
had
scheduled automatic routine daily backups (as easy as running it once, and
choosing the Schedule Backup option), you wouldn't be in trouble.

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

Are you sure they are actually gone? If you are logging into a different
account, you will not see the other user's stuff.

Look under C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\GUEST for the documents and favorites